Page 145 - Communism in Ambush

Propaganda posters showed Mao as the red
sun rising over China. In reality, Maoism
brought famine and torture and made
China a Darwinist arena in which "the
weakest" died. Mao murdered 60 million.
On the right, a photograph of him in the
last years before his death.

China's Savagery in Occupied Countries

The scourge of Maoism was not limited to the Chinese people.
Countries occupied by China or people forced to live under permanent
occupation were also targets of Red brutality. One of these areas was the
"Uyghur Autonomous Region" in the west of China; in other words, the
U Uyghur Turks living in Eastern Turkistan. Because these Turks were
both Moslems and an ethnic minority, the Beijing administration tar-
geted them and subjected them to systematic genocide from the time
Mao came to power in 1949.
The Uyghurs were not allowed to perform their religious obliga-
tions. Schools and places of prayer were closed. In many areas, religious
leaders were arrested and a large number of them martyred. Without
taking any precautions, China carried out 46 nuclear tests in the Uyghur
Autonomous Region, starting in 1964. As a result, cancer among
Uyghurs has risen by a remarkable degree, with many children born
dead or with physical defects.
To murder the Muslim Uyghur Turks, the Chinese employed vari-
ous methods: Between 1949 and 1952, 2,800,000 Uyghurs died; between
then and 1957, 3,509,000 died; between 1958 and 1960, the number was
6,700,000 and in the four years from 1961 to 1965, 13,300,000 Uyghurs
were murdered. In eastern Turkestan, families were forbidden to have
more than one child. Any woman who became pregnant in contraven-